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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2008
Marino Muser, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Pascal Lecland, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Albert Wang, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Patrick Merlat, Suresnes, FR;
Marino Muser, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Pascal Lecland, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Albert Wang, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Patrick Merlat, Suresnes, FR;
Dassault Systemes DELMIA Corp., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
Manufacturing process planning is usually considered as not intuitive for non-expert user. This is because a user needs to deal with processes, describing a work to be done, and other abstract concepts that are loosely related to the real world. Accordingly, a method and corresponding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention are provided to describe a work to be done in response to a user interacting with a three-dimensional representation of one or more parts that form a product and to provide the user with feedback in the form of a graphical representation of the work to be done. This approach is very intuitive as it is close to how a user would, for example, in a real world, decompose a product into sub-assemblies that essentially results into a definition of a manufacturing process of the product.